Report: St. Louis police use force more against Black people

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A study has found that St. Louis police used force against Black people more than three times as often as they did on white people. The California-based, nonprofit research group Center for Policing Equity released the report Thursday after examining police report data from 2012 to 2019. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch said that the report also shows that in 9 out of 10 times when police pulled out a gun, it was at a Black civilian. Mayor Tishaura Jones says eliminating racial disparities in policing is key to making St. Louis safer for all of its residents.